[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#10932) Keyboard shortcut changes

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10932 >

Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10932 >
> 
> Several keyboard shortcuts had to be modified for the tabbed patch
> addition, otherwise keyboard navigation of the game UI was basically
> impossible.
> 
> These keyboard shortcuts should have never been selected in the first
> place, we still have some remaining clashes with the default GTK+
> keybindings for keyboard navigation, but since those have alternatives,
> I guess it is ok.
> 
> GTK+ uses the following keyboard shortcuts by default:
> Up/Down: Used for navigating lists, widgets and menus.
> Left/Right: Used for navigating widgets and menus.
> Page Up/Down, Home, End, used in text input widgets as well as lists
> and menus.
> Space/Enter: activate a widget.
> 
> Since Enter is only used once per turn while space is possibly used
> several times per turn, Enter got the chop into Shift-Enter.
> 
> I forgot to update the docs and several people understandably got
> confused. So here is a patch to modify the docs.

But this is wrong since all the other GUIs still use the old behavior.

Also I don't see what's wrong with using arrow keys to navigate the 
mapview.  The mapview is a widget after all.

jason